Dear fellow British-Europeans - you CAN grieve at midnight for what has been lost, what has been harmed, and when they tell you to "move on" DO move on - to the long, strong, campaign to rejoin; however hard the road, however long it takes; it starts now.
can someone please stand up and start shouting (it wont be the weasel Corbyn) "YOU ARE NOT CHURCHILL, fatso, and the EU is not the Third Reich. You do not have a war cabinet because THERE IS NO WAR. How DARE you invoke the sacrifices of those fought one!
I know it's no surprise but isnt it unconscionable that the "Prime Minister" is partying at Chequers rather than dealing with a major national emergency ?
It's actually all going wrong for Putin - taking Kyiv ( at a bloody cost) won't mean a thing in the long term. Putin assumed a lightning roll-over. Not happening. Ukraine, movingly has found its national fortitude.
why do these dunces abuse history in the name of their simple- minded prejudices. 1) the Reformation was a pan European phenomenon, 2) it created a religious civil war in Britain that lasted 2 centuries
to the millions of good Britons grieving tonight: take heart; this monstrous act of self harm will not stand because the vast majority of the young repudiate it; will in time reverse it and will look back on all who made it possible with astounded contempt
Hardened as we are by Russian atrocities, reports coming in from liberated towns around Kyiv document acts of horrifying, inhuman cruelty and evil, coaches of children used as human shields; corpses left on streets of civilians with hands tied behind back, many shot in head.
@GaryLineker
why would you have a ceasefire with terrorists whose leaders have explicitly said they want to do October 7 again and again until Israel is annihilated?
Please RT
@AaronBastani
fella, they not only muted the laughter. The searched the show for the line "absolutely vital" from a different question and used a more confident clip. His phrasing is different. This is a MAJOR scandal.
#bbcqt
EU now watching with bemused disbelief the UK sawing its own leg off while shouting “you’d better watch out or we’ll saw the other one off too and then you’ll be really sorry!”
In the end Brexit will be reversed because the under 50s overwhelmingly hate it (not to mention a majority of the non-English of all generations) and reversing it will be their cause until that is accomplished. But in the meantime it can do terrible damage.
The Duke of Cambridge has presided over an investiture at
#BuckinghamPalace
Today, historian and broadcaster
@simon_schama
was awarded a Knighthood for services to History.
The half of the country that will rightly treat tomorrrow as one of the darkest days in British history should feel no obligation to put on a brave face in response to Johnson's tinny platitudes much less Brexit cackling. Mourn; rage and hold them to account
As a bonus to NoBoJo could we please see the last of drawling Baron Mogg on front bench; the melting away of Nads, the absolute disappearance of monsters Braverman and Patel?
I want all the moral nullities who signed the "arts" letter without mentioning Hamas and tortured and murdered Jews (because who cares about them, really? ) to read this and tell me that cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and torturing parents in front of their children…
In one day, Hamas militants massacred, tortured, and abducted residents of a kibbutz, leaving their homes charred and their community in ruins, Ruth Margalit writes.
shutting parliament during the gravest national crisis since the war is an act of grotesque cowardice; but history will remember the infamy and those responsible for it with indelible contempt
this is fabulous - "what could be more British than an unnecessary queue to get to a continent you voted to leave because you cant holiday in your own country where everything's too expensive and all the rivers and beaches are full of shite"
White nationalist terrorism is now a murderous plague in the USA. It has little to do with “ mental health” the tendentious response of NRA apologists and everything to do with a poisonous ideology - the wash of hatred flowing from Trumpian rhetoric
This photo by
@McclaranAlyson
shows healthcare workers blocking protesters in Denver who were demanding the stay-at-home order be lifted. It's worthy of a Pulitzer.
Staggeringly offensive, (or pathetically terrified of using the J-word). not enough that millions of our people perished; now we've been subjected to a second disappearance - exactly what the Reich had in mind.
💥Scottish First Minister
@HumzaYousaf
delivered a complete 2-minute
#HolocaustMemorialDay
statement without once mentioning Jews. It is quite something.
"What's the difference between an aeroplane and a Theatre. Why is it safe to fly six a breast to Greece but not safe to sit in a theatre? I don't understand that."
- questions Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre.
#Newsnight
The Welsh Assembly has voted against Brexit; Scotland and Northern Ireland both voted heavily to Remain. So when May,m ERG etc bang on about the British people they mean the English - Brexit is actually just Exit.
Brilliant - and courageous - trip by PMs of Poland, Slovenia and Czech Republic to Kyiv to express EU solidarity with Ukraine. Symbolism is power. Defying and shaming Russian brutality and lies.
Everything calamitous thats happened over past 7 years has been because the country has come second to Tory party management - and the Sunak cabinet is just the latest act in this tawdry betrayal of true national interest
James O'Brien on Iain Duncan Smith's tweet on the Withdrawal Agreement: "Of all the Brexit bonkersness, this is one of the choicest morsels of utter idiocy."
@mrjamesob
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#Brexit
Sickened by the anti-Semitic graffiti on walls all over Hampstead and Belsize Park this morning. All decent people across Britain stand with our Jewish community - and we must move heaven and earth to eradicate this racist hatred, which was unimaginable just a few years ago.
Putin imagining that the capture of Kyiv will finish the job is exactly like Napoleon assuming taking Moscow would ensure a Russian capitulation. And now Kremlin panicking they may have to attack civilian population in big cities. Not in their plans
Our
@Telegraph
splash tomorrow.
Tens of millions of pounds to be spent on marketing blitz warning Britons about how to prepare for a no deal Brexit over the next 3 months.
The spending on billboards, radio and TV will be biggest public information campaign since the end of WW2.
Priti Patel's claim that her parents would have qualified to immigrate as refugees ( under her odious plan) is simply a lie. They emigrated from Uganda in 1960s. Idi Amin's anti- Asian campaign didnt begin until the 70s
If Johnson thinks he’ll unite the country he’s got a damned funny way of showing it - his govt pretty much a no dealer declaration of war on the 48%; a demand for capitulation. But he can shove his ultimatum right up his Brexit.
Damon so right - not just for music - but the whole world of British cultural creativity, (the heart of our soft power); especially for new generations of artists and writers, Brexit has narrowed horizons exactly at the moment they should be opening up.
The worst day jn American history since Trump's election: a crime against future generations committed without anyone seeing a 479 page bill until 2 hours before vote. 13 million lose health care: trillion $ weight on deficit. Trumpocrats shovel millions into their pockets
Am incredibly proud of all the series I have made over 25 years - A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Story of the Jews, Face of Britain watched by millions which only the BBC would have commissioned. It should be treasured not sabotaged
Keir Starmer has actually READ the proposed agreement in crucial detail and thought deeply and forensically about it - and then argues responsibly from that detail. Brilliant but makes everyone WISH he were leader...
YES! this was an extraordinary moment historically. UK now has the biggest pro- EU movement in Europe. A truly mass movement as these beautiful aerial shots make plain.
Dear
@BBCNews
. It seems to me that your continuing insistence that we guage the mood of the nation on Brexit by talking to a few angry men outside a Wetherspoons isn't balanced. A million protestors deserves more coverage and should help divest you of ongoing pro-Brexit bias.
Lest anyone fall for the Rags to Richi bootstrap saga cooked up obv well in advance of his noble resignation moment, he is Winchester and Oxford and married to daughter of mega billionaire Murthy
History ( and I should know) will record what Russia has done to Mariupol as one if the most bestial atrocities in the human record. It will be a stain on those who gave perpetrated it that will never be expunged.
I'm just glad my parents for whom being British and being Jewish was an inseparable soyrce of pride arent alive to see the vile Jew hatred on parade today
"Wilson said anyone who claimed membership of the EU was a black and white issue was either a charlatan or a simpleton... which brings me on to Boris Johnson" says Betty Boothroyd - backing a "People's Vote"
#Brexit
...
Needs to be emphasized that travel ban doesnt apply to US citizens or green card holders travelling back and forth to Europe thereby exposing itself as idiotic and purely political stunt. Unless you believe US passport protects you from virus.
The intensity of shelling has risen again in northwestern Syria, where there is very heavy shelling by Assad forces and Russia targeting residential neighborhoods in the city of Idlib in Syria.
From today if not before it's brutally plain that Brexit is about the Trumpification of the UK; sovereignty bought and sold to Trump's US; real patriotism will be resistance to it.
Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks what is appalling is that nearly all of this evidence has been known for MONTHS and a choice has been made to discount oor ignore it. When will there be a…
Just astonishing - or not these days - how many ardent Brexiters feel free to call the EU the “4th Reich” without thinking how obscenely offensive this is to Jews. The EU has not murdered 6 million people.
BBC exec: “ it’s wrong to expose lies because it undermines faith in British politics”. Just the opposite is the case. Democracy rests on truth or it dies. Important piece by
@OborneTweets
Peter Oborne
@OborneTweets
voted leave, in fact he was a vocal advocate of Brexit. But he is a vocal
#RemainerNow
as he sees Brexit cannot work and threatens the Union. Here is his latest article on how the much of the media let politicians lie.
#GE2019
le’shana tova u’ metukah - a good, sweet year to everyone Jewish and non Jewish alike - may it be filled with apples and honey in these bitter times and may you all have your full share of peace and joy
absolutely heartbreaking interview on
@BBCWorldService
News Hour Afghan interpreter for the British army; unable to make it into airport, he and his family brutally beaten by Taliban and called "slaves of the British". Feeling abandoned he's given up on life
It is an abject thing to have the fate of American democracy come down to getting or not getting a squalid egomaniac off the hook. And a grim challenge to bring millions of the deluded and fanatic around to the truth of the election of 2020 and what followed. I wish I were more…
there was a second nakba - that of 850,000 Jews violently uprooted from Arab lands where they had lived for centuries - before the coming of Islam - whose desendants are majority of Israelis now. Massacre began in Baghdad in 1941 . before Israel established . Teach this too!
Few know the history of the violent explusion of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948: it is not taught in schools, and instead many- myself included- were taught outright lies about Palestine being an empty desert, "a land without a people for a people without a land." As ideas for a…
Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve says "the penny is beginning to drop" among politicians, including some of his Conservative colleagues, that "there is no form of Brexit that is going to benefit our country."
Tuesday looms as a fateful day in modern history. If election deniers take power in Congress and state houses; the power of lies, myths and demonizing fantasies will have been vindicated and American democracy will be in its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Not hyperbole.
This is Syria. Bashar Al Assad’s army is bombing the Sunni civilians in the province of Idlib tonight, killing many.
Anybody cares? Will there be huge protests in Europe and the USA?
Overwhelmed by the kindness of all of you congratulating me on the knighthood, and deeply touched by knowing means so much to many people. I mean to go on with it, on tv and in print, on art and history for as long as I can string words and ideas together !
Peter Oborne’s statement is truly extraordinary ( and actually quite inspiring) in its clarity, honesty and rational decency. It should be read by every engaged person on both Brexit and Remain sides - and if we get that far as a starting point for new debate
Peter Oborne, former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, and former strong Brexiteer is one of the first to break cover and admit he was wrong. Brave.
The masks keep coming off.
Israeli Communications Minister from the ruling Likud party admits tonight that his plan for “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will actually be coerced migration or in other words ethnic cleansing.
In 1942, "Station Z" was created at Sachsenhausen with a crematorium and neck-shot unit; a gassing chamber was added in 1943. So this is the meaning of Putin's "Z" army that he says is "deNazifying" Ukraine